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PainterofCrap posted:Horrible Traffic Failures: Port Richmond (Philadelphia) Edition. That's Frankford, I'm currently sitting 5 blocks from that intersection. (for non-Philly residents, Port Richmond is relatively up and coming as far as real estate goes. Frankford is decidedly not.) xzzy posted:The real problem is that that area has three streets named Buckius and this particular version is only about two blocks long and google maps can't find it. AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Dec 17, 2019 |
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I've driven in most of the major cities on both US coasts, and Philly was a special hell, I was in a hotel down by the airport, and the roads around there often had no lane markings, lanes would end without signage, and indeterminate lane markings would make merging impossible, this seemed to contribute to no one, ever, under any circumstances actually following traffic laws. Many parts of the third world have a better driving experience.
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Elviscat posted:I've driven in most of the major cities on both US coasts, and Philly was a special hell, I was in a hotel down by the airport, and the roads around there often had no lane markings, lanes would end without signage, and indeterminate lane markings would make merging impossible, this seemed to contribute to no one, ever, under any circumstances actually following traffic laws. Philly is where you can just park your car in the middle of the street if you feel. It's belligerently awful.
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NoWake posted:Philly is where you can just park your car in the middle of the street if you feel. It's belligerently awful. Aw, watching the vehicular shitshow on South Broad when the city declares an impending snow emergency is a mid-winter comedy tradition topped only by the Mummers. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Dec 18, 2019 |
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NoWake posted:Philly is where you can just park your car in the middle of the street if you feel. It's belligerently awful. gently caress that so much.
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Krakkles posted:That's ridiculous. Is it actually legal, or is it just a thing people do? Do they ever get towed or is it pretty much accepted? There's nowhere to park at the curb. There's a left turn lane in the center with no streets to turn left onto. Thus it became a parking area and nobody cared.
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Deteriorata posted:There's nowhere to park at the curb. There's a left turn lane in the center with no streets to turn left onto. Thus it became a parking area and nobody cared. 
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Just ran into one in the wild. He came in just looking for four new tires and one of the rims seemed a little odd, so we went back to check what was wrong, and well-  And yes, the wheel balanced fine.
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Since my brother has a broken spine I got drafted to try and fix the front end of his winter shitbox (rusty Peugot 206 gti) to make it pass the annual inspection, even though I'm a lovely car mechanic. Work took place outside in the cold rain. The ball joint was easy. The broken spring was replaced without real issues, though I spilled some oil out of the gearbox when the drive shaft popped out and spring compressors make me queezy. I saved the easiest job for last; an outer tie rod end. I had to lop it off in order to use a rattle gun on the jam nut which was super stuck. This was a bad sign. I then used all my tricks on the remaining threaded section. Wishful thinking in the form of penetrating fluids. Heat from fire (no oxy/acetylene though, could have made a difference maybe). Welded on nut that actually held once I broke out the 200 amp stick welder since the MIG is an underpowered single phase POS that wouldn't penetrate properly. The big pneumatic rattler, cheater bars and pipe wrenches. In the end the tie rod itself twisted and bent. Brother didn't feel like bothering with getting the whole rod out - it's really cramped in there and it seems like the subframe needs to drop in order to gain access. So the shitbox gets junked and I got to spend all day wet, dirty and uncomfortable, throwing new parts at a car that's going straight to the crusher. 
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BlackMK4 posted:My friend, have you heard of the BMW M57? Please do tell, I only have M50s and M52s. taqueso posted:You can do that without taking everything apart? You'll have to strip the engine to the point where you can see the intake ports and where you can turn it over by hand to close the valves you are working on. But that's still substantially less than removing and stripping the cylinder head.
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Invalido posted:So the shitbox gets junked and I got to spend all day wet, dirty and uncomfortable, throwing new parts at a car that's going straight to the crusher. that's the worst thing in this thread. That fukken sucks. I hope your brother appreciates you! did you ever finish up that engine swap in your Nissan ute?
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slothrop posted:that's the worst thing in this thread. That fukken sucks. I hope your brother appreciates you! did you ever finish up that engine swap in your Nissan ute? Oh, he appreciates me plenty. I even made the deal that he would get the chinesium VIDA thingy that's been laying around unused for years up and running in return for the rainy wrenching so that I can finally speak to Volvos properly. He still hasn't quite met that obligation, but I'm pretty sure he'll read this and take the reminder. Bro has computer skills I lack but really hates Windows, so it was a big ask. "Finished" is a relative term. The D21 has a new engine and it kind of runs OK-ish and sees occasional use. It doesn't like to start easily and acceleration enrichment still isn't ideal, and there's an injector that's seemingly misbeaving when it gets heat soaked, fouling up the spark plug (the problem changed cylinder when the injectors were moved between them). There are new injectors waiting to be swapped in, which needs to happen before any further attempts at fine tuning is made. Also less back pain I guess. Bro has recently signed papers to buy a house with a huge garage though, so car wrenching will hopefully move into the warmth soon and become more accessible and frequent altogether. I'm sure the Nissan will receive more love because of this.
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Zuur posted:Just ran into one in the wild. Some monster mounted the tires white-letter in, though.
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Darchangel posted:Some monster mounted the tires white-letter in, though.
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Krakkles posted:As they should be, you monster. Letters out on a pick-up, in on anything else. You horrible monster, you.
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madeintaipei posted:Letters out on a pick-up, in on anything else. You horrible monster, you. And ‘70s musclecars. Edit: Blazers and Jimnys and such also go in with pickups.
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Darchangel posted:And ‘70s musclecars. Fair, fair. Now I wanna stencil, "Mickey Thompson", on airliner tires. When this baby hits Vr, you're gonna see some poo poo.
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madeintaipei posted:Letters out on a pick-up, in on anything else. You horrible monster, you.    Nothing will ever make it seem like this was the wrong choice. I thought we were in agreement until I saw the monster: Darchangel posted:And ‘70s musclecars.
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Paging KakerMix to the thread. We need pix of Land Cruisers, Jimnys, and Pajeros white-letters out, stat!
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PainterofCrap posted:Aw, watching the vehicular shitshow on South Broad when the city declares an impending snow emergency is a mid-winter comedy tradition topped only by the Mummers. I lived on 2nd down in pennsport for a while. It was a special kind of hell the night of new years, but loving surreal and funny to be walking down on new years Eve and seeing the mummers in full regalia loading up floats with buckets filled with handles of liquor. I miss federal donuts. Will you please have some zata'ar chicken for me?
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I was doing the same job just a while ago and I also wish I had known that after they have been on the road for a while, there are no such things as outer and inner tie rod ends, there are just tie rods.
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SeaGoatSupreme posted:I miss federal donuts. Will you please have some zata'ar chicken for me? Not only that, but I’ll go to Pennsport Pub and get some wings.
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SeaGoatSupreme posted:I lived on 2nd down in pennsport for a while. It was a special kind of hell the night of new years, but loving surreal and funny to be walking down on new years Eve and seeing the mummers in full regalia loading up floats with buckets filled with handles of liquor. Will tip you my hat from Two Street while munching the chix & a lavender donut.
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It is surprising just how many people want their tires mounted black out instead of white out. But that car wasn't worth letters out.
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I just got new tires on my Silverado yesterday. Mounted letters in. Fite me.
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letters in? for the win letters out? weird goons shout
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Sheeeit. If I were to put the white letters out on our work trucks, the guys would write work orders demanding that I put them in.
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Had to have a tire fixed. Mounted and put on truck letters out. Had to point out after everything was done the other three were letters in. The look on the tech's face...
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I think it really depends on the vehicle but yeah it's most acceptable on old trucks and the like. I run white letters out on my Suburban but nothing else.
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 heh heh heh e: https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/chevrolet/corvette/2356637.html  
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Powershift posted:heh heh heh ok, boomer
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Powershift posted:e: https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/chevrolet/corvette/2356637.html It's fine, it's just fine 
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Powershift posted:e: https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/chevrolet/corvette/2356637.html this is what insurance is for you stupid dumbshit
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Powershift posted:
That’s beautiful but mind boggling. How on earth does that happen? I mean obviously the root cause is something like “on Friday, near shift end, with a quota to meet, Joe Blow accidentally bumped the current knob on the spot welder and didn’t want to scrap the part”. It’s just that going by the apparent age of the vehicle, that sucker existed for many years without going all  . Hard to imagine it holding together that long with lovely welds.
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Autoexec.bat posted:I think it really depends on the vehicle but yeah it's most acceptable on old trucks and the like. I run white letters out on my Suburban but nothing else. I was behind a suburban from that era this morning that was leaking fuel every time he accelerated. I assume it didn't change the gas milage very much.
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Powershift posted:e: https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/chevrolet/corvette/2356637.html My favourite part is "Interior: Charcoal". Well, no poo poo!
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Sagebrush posted:this is what insurance is for you stupid dumbshit double dippin, i hope, lol
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Pomp and Circumcized posted:My favourite part is "Interior: Charcoal". I figured that was at least a modicum of humor. It actually wouldn’t surprise me that a ‘56 Corvette in that shape is worth $15k. If the engine is still good (looked like it, if they got oil or WD-40 or something down its fuller to displace any firefighting water) I could see it being a $15k engine. Corvette people are special.
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